Stacie Halas, a former high school teacher in Southern California, is fighting to reclaim her job after being suspended on discovery of her X-rated history as a porn star.

Having starred in such pornographic features as Tiffany Six, Halas was fired from Richard B. Haydock Intermediate School in Oxnard after students and staff discovered that she had previously acted in adult films via their mobiles.

However, Halas’s lawyer, Richard Scwab, argued this week that she was finished with the porn industry prior to her post as a science teacher at the school in 2009.

While speaking to NBC Los Angeles, he said: “I think most of us have something in our backgrounds. And I ask anybody here to cast the first stone. What happened six years ago has not impacted her ability to be an effective teacher.”

Halas’s past was confirmed by school officials when it was revealed that she had acted in porn movies from 2005-2006, and it is now the opinion of said officials that her past will be too much of a distraction for her students.

Tom DeLapp, spokesman for Oxnard School , added: “The fact that she listed being a lifeguard and being at Subway sandwich but chose to eliminate the fact that she was in the porn industry is very telling.”

The story follows news from earlier this year of an English teacher who was accused of appearing in a smartphone orgy with five of her students, while in Birmingham, UK, a swimming teacher was suspended after mistakenly texting lewd messages to all of his contacts.

An administrative panel is expected to last until the end of the week.